There's gotta be something more

[kaciagemini]

Am back. Two weeks in a hot tent selling fireworks and no internet is much longer than a regular two weeks. But on the bright side, I bought much pretty fireworks that I'll prolly set off either this week or Sat. night. It's a good thing you can't hear me talking because I've become infected by a deep TN accent which is very different and much worse than regular KY accent and much harder to resist apparently. I maintain that I slipped into it to appease the customers so they would buy more fireworks. Though apparently they can all easily distinguish between *real* TN and KY trying to be TN. *I* can't. Anyway, two weeks of being driven slowly (or actually rather quickly) insane by Rebecca. I like her. Really. I do. In *small* doses. Like about 20 minutes.

Got an A in my Eng 200 class. Despite the fact that I was 10 minutes late for the final. Damn traffic. And I bullshat my way through the majority of the test.

My phone is chirping at me. I should probably plug it in.

Two weeks listening to naught but country music may have permanently warped my brain. Anyhow I have rediscovered a long-lost liking for country. (Except for old Garth Brooks stuff, which I always liked.) So now I'm trying to download like every country song I've heard in the last two weeks. Which is easier than it sounds. For some reason, country stations seem to have exceptionally small playlists. They just play the same stuff over and over and over and over...

I still haven't mailed my dad his father's day present. Crap. If I wait long enough, I guess I can just send it to him at home instead of on the ship...

I've been awake for about... 43 hours straight. Spent vast portions of it re-reading HP & the Order of the Phoenix in preparation for the next book coming out in 10 days (*squee!*). We kept the tent open all night on the 4th. (not that we got much business. it was actually pretty pitiful) then had to stay open today and pack everything up and stuff. Didn't leave to go home until after 8. Got home a little after 10 and Bruce made me dinner (yay!) and I hung out with Zoe a bit. I'll see mom and aileen and luke tomorrow I guess. I keep oscillating (sp? too lazy to check) between being so tired I can't keep my eyes open and being wide awake. Hmm. I really am going to go to bed soon. I feel mostly human now that I'm clean and fed. Well-rested should fill my life meter the rest of the way up with little red hearts. (what? don't you live in an old-school rpg world?)

Helen was supposed to come by tonight after work, wasn't she? What time does she get off work anyway? I don't remember. I'm sure if she gets in after I'm asleep she'll wake me up. Or attempt to. I think, once I fall out, I might stay out for an exceptionally long time.

I've checked my e-mails from the last two weeks. I'm still working on catching up on my f-list. *sigh* I love you guys, really I do! I'll try to catch up tomorrow night depending on how long I sleep. And somewhere in there I need to watch Crossing Jordan and Queer as Folk (which apparently Zoe *didn't* tape the first weekend I was gone, though she did *watch* it).

One of the things I ordered right before I left still hasn't arrived and I don't know why. *grr*

Final thought: I've been giving it a lot of thought while trapped in a tent with not much else to do and I think I want to get a tattoo. Of an infinity symbol (looks like a sideways 8 if you don't know) on my right outside ankle. I was thinking a little ways up, just above the bony bit, because I've heard it hurts more if you get it across the ankle bone.
So my question for you guys (I'm too lazy to actually go make a poll) is
1.) Do you think I should get a tatoo?
2.) And if so, do you think that location is good?
3.) And if so, what, if anything, do you think I should write below it?
I kinda want it to say INFINITY stretching the length of the symbol right below it, but Jen seems to think that's dumb, so I'm looking for further input.
If I do decide to definitely do it, I think I'm gonna wait until I get my paycheck from fireworks which will be a few weeks, and go get it done with some of that money. Shouldn't cost too much cuz it's just gonna be plain black and pretty small.

Oh, the one thing that I meant to say! Apparently, sunshine and fresh air do not agree with me. I am totally breaking out, like, worse than I ever have in a long damn time. It's kind of ridiculous.

That is all. I should probably re-read this for typos made because of sleepiness... but I'm prolly too sleep to notice them.

Gonna go pass out now as it's after 4 AM. -- Or not. Helen just got here. Yay! Oz season 2!

Comments

[ktprincesswitch.livejournal.com]

Now you can't tease me for liking country music. Yay.

Tattoo

[peachie-keen26.livejournal.com]

As a person with a tattoo, I recommend you get it somewhere that can be easily covered. You never know what kind of job situation you may find yourself in in the future.

Welcome back, I've missed your entries.

Re: Tattoo

[kaciagemini.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Nice to know somebody actually reads this crap. :)
I am trying to keep in mind what would be easily cover-up-able - With me, I really don't wear skirts or shorts, so even if I was doing something where I needed to look professional, I think I would be wearing pants-suits or somesuch anyway, so ankle shouldn't be a problem. Should be pretty safe location any which way.

[noroi-kaidan.livejournal.com]

Maybe "infinity" written in another language?

The place is nice, though if I got a tattoo, and for years I did indeed want one, I would get it somewhere on the small of my back, or right next to my hipbone, in the front. My reasoning? It's MUCH easier to hide when you go for a job, and a LOT of places will not hire you because there is some fucking stupid stigma attatched to tattoos, and people who get them. Supposedly it's lower class, and look really unprofessional...and people don't want to hire someone, if you are looking at a profession where "business is best"..like..

Okay. The people who work the camera crew at the station have tattoos, and visible ones! The reporters, and anchors, do not, and if you do, it stays covered up. (I noticed Katie's on the small of her back last night) So in a more public position where professionalism, or at least the illusion of it, is key...

You get what I am trying to say, which is...think long and hard about the career path you may choose, and THEN think about a place.

Now, as to why I will likely never get a tattoo--if I get sick of a piercing, I can take it out, and at the worst, be left with a scar. Eventually the piercing would close. I couldn't do that with a tattoo.

I'm not telling you whether or not you should get it, in fact--I do support it if it is something you truly want! ^.^ I'm only offering some food for thought, ne?

Happy thinking! ^.^ Yes, I think Infinity in...umm...latin, or OOH, how about something obscure, yet pretty, like...Elvish? You can find Sindarin, Noldorian, and High Elvish, (also called the Grey Tongue, I think) translator thingys online...and it looks so pretty. All swirly, scrolly, elegant.. Where the fuck I pulled the names for those languages from--I don't know. But they have other various Middle Earth langues too. There you go--my thoughts!

[ktprincesswitch.livejournal.com]

I totally want the ankle tattoo thing myself.. different tattoo, of course. And it's easy to cover up.. it's called wearing *pants*
Meanwhile I'm trying to think of tattoos that couldn't be covered up. Hands.. uhm.. neck and face? I guess arms in summer.

And if a dental hygenist can have a tongue ring.. I think a professor (which is sadly what I'll end up being) can have a tattoo. Without being a Deviance professor. *coughPruittcough*

And if I work in a medical examiner's office.. this is my argument : "It's an IDENTIFYING mark!" *giggle*

Now, about Katie: asking her to connsider her career choice before she gets it is a bad idea because she doesn't know. That really takes too much forward thought.. (I love you babe)
Anyway.. i think the ankle is nice and unnoticeable ..I mean, doesn't Aileen have an ankle tattoo that I still have yet to actual see with my own eyes?

All right, done spaming your LJ.

[kaciagemini.livejournal.com]

I did think about doing it in Japanese kanji or something but then my brain got stuck in a loop because I couldn't figure out if the concept of infinity exists in Japanse...
I should probably look up what it would look like in a bunch of different languages and scripts before I decide.